Had there not been believing men and believing women whom you did not know, that you may kill them, and on whose account a sin would have been committed by you without (your) knowledge, that Allah might bring into His Mercy whom He will, if they (the believers and the disbelievers) should have been apart, We verily had punished those of them who disbelieved, with painful torment.
Jawab dari lafal Laulaa tidak disebutkan, yakni tentulah Allah mengizinkan kalian untuk melakukan penaklukan, tetapi ketika itu Dia ternyata tidak mengizinkan kalian melakukan hal itu. (Supaya Allah memasukkan siapa yang dikehendaki-Nya ke dalam rahmat-Nya) seperti orang-orang mukmin yang telah disebutkan tadi.